Lancaster is a 22-year-old visual artist residing and working as an Art teacher in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. In 2016 she began her undergraduate degree in Fine Art at the University of Derby in which she began experimenting with sculpture and video art with a project focusing on the damaging message Barbie dolls present to children.

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Prior to this, Lancaster explored several political issues in her A-Level pieces such as Feminist art, maternity and motherhood, matriarchal figures and the tragic impact of war on children.

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In 2018, Lancaster began transforming herself into an array of Sherman-esque personas within her photography. Through the act of masquerading herself within her art, she started parodying popular reality television shows in order to explore the lack of authenticity within them.

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Her work began focusing on only one alter ego. Lancaster created forty-six-year-old 'Claudia Bawd' as a vehicle to push her work outside the art world. 'Claudia' appears as a 'real person' on social media, yet is simply an exercise in testing the strength of authenticity versus fiction.

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After graduating, Lancaster undertook a postgraduate course and is now a qualified teacher who teaches both Art and Photography to 11-18-year-olds.

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Lancaster's current work was produced during the lockdown and mainly uses the medium of photomontage. She uses discarded magazines and newspapers to create politically charged compositions which portray current issues such as the pandemic, racism, sexism, political corruption and the idea of celebrity.

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